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The General Instrument/Motorola DCT2000 is a cable box used for watching TV by way of digital cable. These set-top boxes were popular in the late 1990s up until the mid to late 2000s, when the adoption of more sophisticated successors, namely those set-tops with the ability to record live programming began.
A Motorola CableCARD. CableCARD is a special-use PC Card device that allows consumers in the United States to view and record digital cable television channels on digital video recorders, personal computers and television sets on equipment such as a set-top box not provided by a cable television company. The card is usually provided by the ...
Comcast has since introduced the XiD set-top box with the same form factor as the original DTA design but adds an HDMI output and access to X1 DVRs and channels via its digital cable and IP tuning abilities. [5] In 2012, an HD-DTA was launched adding an HDMI connection and RF remote support to the original DTA design.
Some countries have also introduced digital television and ended analog over-the-air transmissions. Most new TVs feature a digital tuner which allows reception of digital over-the-air TV without need of an external device such a converter box. If using a TV set without a digital tuner, an external converter box must be purchased and used.
On Wednesday, Arris Group announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the Motorola set-top cable box division, known as "Motorola Home," from Google for $2.35 billion. Though the ...
Most digital video signals are compressed to MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 formats in order to combine multiple video streams into a QAM making the most efficient use of spectrum which a customer cable set top box receives, demodulates, de-encrypts and displays as a virtual channel number that the viewer recognizes. In many cases the same TV network may ...
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